Quotes about principles




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"Success is the ability to rise above principle."

Barzan, Gerald on principles    Share


"In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal."

Barzun, Jacques on principles    Share

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."

Beecher, Henry Ward on principles    Share

"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love."

Camus, Albert on principles    Share

"The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions."

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"You can't live principles you can't understand."

Covey, Stephen R. on principles    Share

"The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition."

Einstein, Albert on principles    Share

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on principles
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"Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst."

Garfield, Charles A. on principles    Share

"We may be personally defeated, but our principles never."

Garrison, William Lloyd on principles    Share

"The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness."

Harrison, Harry on principles    Share

"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."

Hegel, Georg on principles    Share

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"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

Jefferson, Thomas on principles
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"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."

Kroc, Ray on principles
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"Obey the principles without being bound by them."

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"Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator."

Lewis, Wyndham on principles    Share

"People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions."

Luther, Martin on principles    Share

"Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom."

Lyman, Edward R. on principles    Share

"Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle."

Melbourne, Lord on principles
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"You may be flexible on strategy, but must remain consistent on principle!"

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"Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles."

Skelton, Red on principles    Share

"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on principles    Share

"I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed."

Twain, Mark on principles    Share

"Prosperity is the best protector of principle."

Twain, Mark on principles    Share

"Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season."

Twain, Mark on principles    Share

"Principal is a passion for truth!"

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"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

Wilde, Oscar on principles
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"Important principles may and must be flexible."

Lincoln, Abraham on principles    Share

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